About Nancy
Nancy Bryant is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She draws on 24 years of experience to offer steady, straightforward support for everyday struggles. Nancy speaks plainly and centers the person in the room as the expert of their own story.
In sessions she uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns, make small changes, and stick with what matters.
Background and approach
She also relies on client-centered care to listen closely and shape the work around each person’s needs. The result is a mix of problem-solving and values-based coaching. Nancy has worked with people facing big life changes and transitions.
She offers practical strategies for coping with loss, separation, and shifts in roles. She also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness and pain, and substance-related problems. Other areas she pays attention to include communication problems, family of origin issues, codependency, commitment worries, body image, and recovery from relationship endings.
Sessions focus on clear goals, skills to use between meetings, and gradual steps toward better daily functioning. Nancy encourages people to take the first step even when it feels hard. She explains options, answers questions about format and timing, and helps match a plan to each person's pace.
Her approach is calm, practical, and respectful of each person’s strengths.
Approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when thoughts or feelings get in the way. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a collaborative relationship so the person feels heard and understood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nancy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, client-centered methods, or a mix of these will best support the person’s needs and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication styles. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English